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Guy Kawasaki - Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition

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February 4, 2009

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As Guy Kawasaki puts it, “If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don’t make sense”...it’s time for a reality check.

For nearly three decades, Kawasaki has earned a stellar reputation as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and irreverent pundit. His 2004 bestseller, The Art of the Start, has become the most acclaimed bible for small business. And his blog is consistently one of the fifty most popular in the world. Now, Kawasaki has compiled his best wit, wisdom, and contrarian opinions in handy book form.

Kawasaki has written nine books, including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, and How to Drive Your Competition Crazy. He writes one of the most popular blogs in the world. He is also a cofounder of Garage Technology Ventures (an early-stage venture capital firm).

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  February 4, 2009

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  Kepler's Books

  1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025

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    This book is one of the best books I have listened to. The actresses read this book for us superbly. I laughed. I cried. I reminisced. Thank you ladies for pure entertainment.

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    Here are ten questions for the book's author: http://revuse.wetpaint.com/page/Ten+Questions+for+the+Muslim+Next+Door Perhaps someone who attends the talk might be willing to ask her one or more... Expand

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    Here are ten questions for the book's author: http://revuse.wetpaint.com/page/Ten+Questions+for+the+Muslim+Next+Door Perhaps someone who attends the talk might be willing to ask her one or more of them? Collapse

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    Hello, my name is Ted Haggen and I am the producer for the Ian and Margery FM107.1 morning show in Minneapolis and St. Paul. They saw your book and would be very interested in an interview with you. Please contact me at your earliest convenience and we can talk more. My email is tedhaggen@yahoo.com or you can contct me on my cell. (612) 214-0147. Thanks in advance and I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Ted Haggen Collapse

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    There is an interesting write up of Wolff's talk on www.TheBayAreaIntellect.com.

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